0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of occupied private dwellings with no registered motor vehicle.
Travellers Rest · Suburb / Locality
Transport & Vehicles in Travellers Rest
How households get around — the vehicles they keep and the journey to work.
Zero homes in Travellers Rest lack a motor vehicle, a figure well below both the Tasmanian and national rates. Car ownership is essential here, as almost every household owns at least two vehicles to manage the long distances to urban centres.
Vehicles
Motor vehicles per home, and homes with no car.
Most households are heavily equipped for travel, with 28.3% owning four or more vehicles and 32.5% owning two. This high level of ownership means no homes in the area are without a car.
Motor vehicles per home
View on map →Travellers Rest splits fairly evenly between 2 vehicles (33%) and 4 or more (28%), with 3 vehicles at 26%.
Getting to work
How people travel to work.
Driving is the primary way to get to work, used by 75.5% of residents. While 10.2% work from home—a figure a little above the Tasmanian average—no one here commutes using public transport.
10.2% ▲ +90.1%
Lower than 73% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 5.4%
- 2016: 4.9%
- 2021: 10.2%
Share of employed people aged 15+ who worked at home on census day.
0.0% → —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2011: 0.0%
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of employed people who got to work by train, bus, ferry or tram/light rail as their only method of travel on census day.
Public transport access
Stops, services, routes and how far you can get by public transport.
Public transport is very limited, with only one bus route and one stop serving the area. This results in weekly departures per 1,000 people that are far below the state figure.
1
Higher than 64% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled public-transport stops (bus, train, tram and ferry) located in the area, from the state GTFS feeds.
2.87
Higher than 69% of suburb / locality areas.
Public-transport stops per 1,000 residents — a measure of how densely an area is served (GTFS stops; population from the 2021 Census).
14.4
Higher than 59% of suburb / locality areas.
Scheduled weekly public-transport departures from stops in the area, per 1,000 residents — how often transit actually runs, not just whether a stop exists (GTFS schedules for a representative week; population from the 2021 Census).
1
Higher than 71% of suburb / locality areas.
Distinct public-transport routes serving stops in the area (GTFS feeds).
Getting around
Walking distance to transport and driving time to the city.
It takes much longer to reach the city from here than in most other areas, with a drive time of 124 minutes. However, the walk to the nearest transport stop is relatively short, taking about 5 minutes.
5
Lower than 68% of suburb / locality areas.
Walking time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to the nearest public-transport stop, along the OpenStreetMap pedestrian network (Valhalla). Blank where no stop is within a reasonable walk.
124
Higher than 83% of suburb / locality areas.
Free-flow driving time, in minutes, from the centre of the area to its state/territory capital city centre, along the OpenStreetMap road network (Valhalla). Excludes live traffic.
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
- Public transport timetables (GTFS) — State & territory transport agencies, 2026 (CC BY 4.0 (WA: custom PTA licence)).
- Road & path network (OpenStreetMap, via Valhalla) — OpenStreetMap contributors, 2026 (ODbL 1.0).
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Cite this page
Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Transport & Vehicles in Travellers Rest [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL60687/travellers-rest/topic/transport